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Solitude, writing, and the mind

Several writers compare their craft to solitary confinement, describing long stretches spent Alone with only their own books for company.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

Quotes by Will Self

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Nov 07, 2020

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Quotes by Tennessee Williams

Nov 07, 2020

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.

Quotes by Sophie Kinsella

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Nov 07, 2020

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

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Nov 07, 2020

That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.

Quotes by Joel Salatin

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Nov 07, 2020

I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.

Quotes by Dian Fossey

Another asks How many people condemned to real solitary confinement have lost their minds simply from prolonged isolation.

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